A medical practitioner, Dr Karan Rajan has warned against pulling out your nose hairs as it has medical side effects.
The doctor in a video he uploaded on his Instagram handle, said instead of pulling your nose hair, ‘just trim it’.
“You have two types of nose hairs.
“You have microscopic cilia, these filter mucus and send it to the back of the throat where it ends up in the stomach, and vibrissae, the big ones you want to yank out.”
“These [nose hairs] keep out large particles from making it into the back of the nose.
“If you pluck these big boys, germs around the follicle can get inside, causing infection.”
“That’s because the same veins that carry blood out of the nose meet up the veins that carry blood out of the brain.
“So if the germs end up back there in the brain, it can cause inflammation in the brain, sometimes resulting in brain abscess.
“This is incredibly rare but can cause serious problems for people with weak immune systems.
“So next time, just trim it.”
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